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Nation Quotes

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation’s only physical link to the past.

– Ma Jian

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations – some nation states, some private and some criminal – that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.

– Dennis C. Blair

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

– Evo Morales

If there’s one thing Arizona is best in the nation at, it’s water.

– Doug Ducey

We’re a compassionate nation.

– Mike McCaul

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

– Mac Thornberry

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

– Norman Angell

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

– Elton Gallegly

I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

– Neil Patrick Harris

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

– Edward R. Murrow

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

– Diane Watson

Here rests the soul of our nation – here also should be our conscience.

– Caspar Weinberger

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

– George Herbert Mead

Let a nation’s fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

– Edward Everett

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

– Eric Hoffer

The right to vote is one of our nation’s most important civil rights.

– Eric Schneiderman

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation’s Governors highest priority.

– Mel Carnahan

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation’s capital, their task seems daunting.

– David K. Shipler

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

– Gordon B. Hinckley

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

– Edmond de Goncourt

Patriots don’t let their nation default.

– Gary Ackerman

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we’ve got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.

– Chuck Fleischmann

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

– P. J. O’Rourke

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

– Charles Stewart Parnell

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

– Malcolm Wallop

Turkey’s solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

– Elliott Abrams

I’m very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

– Mike McCaul

What I haven’t apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

– F. W. de Klerk

This nation’s elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

– Charlie Gonzalez

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

– Pat Robertson

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